LIST OF OPEN COURT PUBLICATIONS ON SCIENCE
The Primary Factors of Organic Evolution. By E. D. Cope. Second edition. Pages, 550; illustrations, 121; tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $2.00 net.
A comprehensive handbook of the Neo-Lamarckian theory of Evolution.
A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution. By Carl von Naegeli. Translated by V. A. Clark and F. A. Waugh. Price, cloth, 60c; paper, 30c net.
A synopsis of his great work on evolution.
Darwin and After Darwin. An exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions. By George J. Romanes. 3 vols. Price, $4.00 net.
Part I. The Darwinian Theory. Price, cloth, $2.00 net.
Part II. Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility. Price, cloth, $1.50 net.
Part III. Post-Darwinian Questions. Isolation and Physiological Selection. Price, cloth, $1.00 net.
An Examination of Weismannism. By George J. Romanes. Price, cloth, $1.00 net; paper, 40c net.
"The best criticism of the subject in our language."—The Outlook.
On Germinal Selection. By August Weismann. Translated by T. J. McCormack. Price, paper, 30c net.
The Rise of Man. A Sketch of the Origin of the Human Race. By Paul Carus. Pages, 97; illustrated. Boards, cloth back, 75c net.
The Scope and Content of the Science of Anthropology. By Juul Dieserud. Pages, 200; cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net.
"The science of Anthropology," according to Topinard, "is that branch of natural history which treats of man, and the races of men."
Experiments on the Generation of Insects. By Francesco Redi. Translated from the Italian edition of 1688, by Mab Bigelow. Illustrated. Cloth, $2.00 net.
This book may be counted as one of the classics of the theory of evolution.
Ants and Some Other Insects. An Inquiry into the Psychic Powers of these Animals, with an Appendix on the peculiarities of their Olfactory Sense. By August Forel. Translated by William M. Wheeler. Price, $1.00 net; paper, 55c net.
Plant Breeding. Comments on the Experiments of Nilsson and Burbank. By Hugo de Vries. Pages, xv, 360. Illustrated with 114 half-tone plates from nature. Printed on fine paper, in large type. Cloth, gilt top. Price, $1.50 net.
A scientific book in simple language. Intensely interesting as well as instructive. Of special value to every botanist, horticulturist and farmer.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation. Lectures delivered at the University of California by Hugo de Vries, Professor of Botany in the University of Amsterdam. Pages, xviii, 847. Cloth, gilt top, $5.00 net.
The Mutation Theory. Experiments and Observations on the Origin of Species in the Vegetable Kingdom. 2 vols. Numerous illustrations, colored plates. By Hugo de Vries. Translated by Prof. A. B. Farmer and A. D. Darbishire. Cloth, per volume, $4.00.
This is de Vries' great book on a new explanation of the evolution theory, accounting for the formation of species not by the struggle for existence but by mutation.
Intracellular Pangenesis. Including a paper on Fertilization and Hybridization. By Hugo de Vries. Translated from the German by C. Stuart Gager. Cloth, $3.00 net.
This is de Vries' first important book. It is not very large, but ought to be read by all students of botany, and also by those who are interested in the theory of evolution.
On Orthogenesis and the Impotence of Natural Selection in Species-Formation. By Th. Eimer. Translated by T. J. McCormack. Price, paper, 30c net.
Another critic of Darwin who claims that organisms develop through transmission of acquired characters.
On the Inheritance of Acquired Characters. By Eugenio Rignano. Translated by Basil C. H. Harvey. With an Appendix "On the Mnemonic Origin and Nature of Affective Tendencies." Cloth, $3.00 net.
Rignano calls his theory "centro-epigenesis" and is greatly influenced by Weismann.
On Double Consciousness. Studies in Experimental Psychology. By Alfred Binet. Third edition. Pages, 93. Cloth, 50c net; paper, 20c net.
"A most valuable contribution to this important subject which none of its students can afford to leave unread."—Public Opinion.
The Psychic Life of Micro-Organisms. By Alfred Binet. Authorized translation. Pages, xii, 120. Cloth, 75c net; paper, 30c net.
"He fortifies his theory by such a wealth of exact observation and experiments that the reader who follows his demonstration carefully can hardly fail of conviction."—New York Tribune.
The Psychology of Reasoning. By Alfred Binet. Translated from the second French edition by Adam Gowans Whyte, B.Sc. Pages, 191. Cloth, 75c net; paper, 30c net.
"Like everything that Dr. Binet writes, the subject is stated and expounded lucidly."—The Lancet.
The Diseases of Personality. By Théodule Ribot. Authorized translation. Fourth edition. Pages, 157. Cloth, 75c net; paper, 30c.
Contents: Introduction, Consciousness; Organic Disorders; Affective Disorders; Diseases of the Intellect; Dissolution of Personality.
The Diseases of the Will. By Théodule Ribot. Authorized translation. Third edition. Pages, vi, 121. Cloth, 75c net; paper, 30c net.
Contains chapters on impairments of the will and of voluntary attention, the realm of caprices, and extinction of the will.
Essay on the Creative Imagination. By Théodule Ribot. Translated from the French by A. H. N. Baron, Fellow in Clark University. Cloth, gilt top. Pages, 357. $1.75 net.
The motor nature of the constructive imagination.
The Psychology of Attention. By Théodule Ribot, Professor in the Collège de France and editor of the "Revue Philosophique." Fifth and revised edition. Authorized translation. Pages, 121. Cloth, 75c net; paper, 30c net.
Contents: Spontaneous or Natural Attention; Voluntary or Artificial Attention; Morbid States of Attention.
The Diseases of Memory. By Théodule Ribot. Cloth, $1.50 net.
Memory. Lectures on the Specific Energies of the Nervous System. By Ewald Hering. Fourth edition, containing an additional chapter on the Theory of Nerve Activity. Cloth, $1.00 net.
The Analysis of Sensations and the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical. By Ernst Mach, Emeritus Professor in the University of Vienna. Translated by C. M. Williams. Third edition revised and supplemented from the fifth German edition by Sydney Waterlow, M.A. Pages, xvi, 380. Cuts, 37. Cloth, $1.50 net.
Popular Science Lectures. By Ernst Mach, Professor in the University of Vienna. Translated from the German by T. J. McCormack. Third edition. Pages, 415. Cloth, gilt top, $1.50 net; paper, 60c net.
A portrayal of the methods and spirit of science, in lectures on mechanics, sound, light, electricity, the conservation of energy, philosophy and education.
Man a Machine. By Julien Offray De La Mettrie. Including Frederick the Great's Eulogy on La Mettrie and Extracts from La Mettrie's "Natural History of the Soul." Translated, with notes, by Gertrude Carman Bussey. French-English edition. With a portrait of La Mettrie. Pages, 226. Cloth, $2.00 net.
La Mettrie was the most extreme writer among the earliest French materialists. His doctrine is an extension to man of Descartes' doctrine that animals are automata.